One of the things that I would really like to have in DSL-n is the ability to connect to my other machines via rdesktop (winxp clients) and vnc (other OS's). I seem to remember these being part of the default DSL package and while I understand that DSL-n means "Not DSL" I am surprised these two apps were left out. I've even searched the extension repository for these (the DSL version of vnc will not work with DSL-n). Yesterday I spent a couple of hours trying to build the SciTE application from source within my DSL-n system, but was unable to get it to finish it's compile. I've not completely given up on this but I fear that I will have similar luck if I try to build rdesktop and vncviewer for my machine. Ok, so here's the question part:

1. is there a reliable download repository for Debian Woody compatable source code (in the locations I found yesterday it was unclear as to whether I was really getting Woody versioned source or not).

2. does anyone have prior (successful) experience with building a .dsl extension of rdesktop or vncviewer for DSL-n???

You could try to build SciTE using a Knoppix 4.0.2 CD to boot from as a ready-made build environment for DSL-N

Thanks for the tip juanito. In this case though I'm more interested in getting the correct version of source code. I'm pretty sure that my problems yesterday with building SciTE were related to not having the proper version (scintilla built successfully, but scite had at least one error). Do you know of a good archive for getting Debian Woody application source?

-- EDIT --

I think I just realized what you were telling me... the Knoppix 4.0.2 CD is the correct version of the applications right?

Just extract the application that you are interested in and move it into DSL-N as a UNC.

Roberts,

I read the documentation on UNC's and understand the concept, but what I don't get is how I would "extract" the application from the Knoppix live CD. Is there any good tutorials, wiki descriptions or anything on this process? Thanks!